When Arthur Thomas Rigby was born in 1888, in Woolton, Lancashire, England, his father, Alfred Rigby, was 39 and his mother, Ann Eaton, was 35. He lived in Woolton, Liverpool, Lancashire, England, United Kingdom in 1891. He died in 1963, at the age of 75.
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English (Lancashire): habitational name from Ribby in Lancashire, named with Old Scandanavian hryggr ‘ridge’ + bȳ ‘farmstead, village’. Compare Rigsby .
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